Coronavirus Essential podcast | Health ministry aims to conduct 10 lakh tests per day; Oxford vaccine showing good progress, says AstraZeneca

Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan said on July 30 that India is currently conducting around five lakh COVID-19 tests per day, and the ministry is aiming to double the number within the next two months.

In the vaccine front, the UK pharma company AstraZeneca said that good data was coming from phase III of their vaccine trials. The company had developed the vaccine in collaboration with the University of Oxford and has already made several deals with countries to make more than 2 billion doses of the vaccine.